Neurological disorders

Neurological Disorder: Stroke Mei Hasegawa, Brianna Magrath, Gabriel Ramos, Colette Wong San Francisco State University  Overview of Stroke         A “cerebrovascular accident” is a term used to define a stroke. When a stroke occurs, blood flow cessates to the brain. If the blood flow cessation prolongs, the brain cannot receive oxygen and nutrients, which may lead to cell death and irreversible damage (Kantor et al., 2005 Stanford Health Care, 2015). The two types of stroke are ischemic and hemorrhagic

Article Reflections on the Self: A Case Study of a Prosopagnosic Patient (2008) and Movement Cues Aid Face Recognition in Developmental Prosopagnosia (2015) give a review on visual agnosia. These article’s main focus is on prosopagnosia. Sigmund Freud coined the term visual agnosia back in 1891. Visual agnosia is the ability to see an image and store it, but there is an impairment in visually recognizing the specific object. There are a plethora of subtypes of visual agnosia, which include prosopagnosia

that many kids are starting to get the brain disorder. I ask myself If the number are growing like this what will it be like in a few years is every child gonna be faced with some trace of ASD. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the most detrimental brain disorder to society it could in a few years really have a huge impact on the world. In the

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common neurological disorders constantly leading to perpetual disability in young adults. Accounting for more than 40,000 affected individuals in Egypt alone (Tallawy et al., 2016), and 2.5 million patients worldwide. (MS) is a chronic inflammatory, demyelinating, autoimmune neurodegenerative disease characterized by the disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB), perivascular inflammation, axonal and oligodendrocyte injury, and breakdown of the myelin

disabilities a child could have such as muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and cerebral palsy. However, the most common physical disability in children is cerebral palsy (“Facts”). Cerebral palsy is a disease that affects infants and children. It is a disorder of movement, posture, and/or muscle tone usually caused by brain damage either before or soon after birth. There are a variety of signs of cerebral palsy, oral problems as a result of this disease, and other interesting facts. Symptoms of this disease

Empathy and Neurological Disorders Empathy is an emotional trait which connects us to one another. Understanding the reasons behind why individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and conduct disorder (CD) lack this emotion will allow for us to reach and intervene with these individuals; therefore, allowing for the individual to connect with the world around them to the best of their ability. Autism has become more prevalent. Why? Is it environmental or are we more aware of what to look for

One of the most common neurological disorders that affects development from birth through adulthood is one that I am very familiar with, cerebral palsy. According to (Hurley et al., 2011) there is an “estimated 800,000 children and adults living with cerebral palsy,” I am one of those adults that were born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy affects a person’s development of “movement and posture, causing activity limitations due to disturbances that occur during the development of the fetal or

Tying Neurological Research to Readings Jose Massana Florida International University Tying Neurological Research to Readings In Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, he denotes a “deficit is an impairment or incapacity of neurological function; such as loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision loss of dexterity, or loss of identity” (Sacks, 1985). The specific neurological disorder that is highlighted in chapter one is Visual Agnosia, which is a deficit associated

Cerebral Palsy Cerebral Palsy is considered a neurological disorder caused by a non-progressive braininjury or malformation that occurs while the child’s brain is under development. This conditionaffects the body's movements and its coordination. Cerebral Palsy is a term that refers todamage that has occurred to the brain before birth, during birth, or after birth. Researchsuggests that Cerebral Palsy is caused by a brain abnormality that has occurred during thedevelopment of the brain. The cause

Neurological Disorder: Parkinson’s Disease One of the most commonly seen neurological disorders is Parkinson’s disease (PD). Named after the doctor who first identified the disease as “the shaking palsy” Dr James Parkinson (1755-1824), Parkinson’s disease affects over 1 million Americans today. On average around 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease annually. This is an alarming number of new cases but what is even more startling is the fact that thousands of cases go undetected